Open Thread

“his friend finally arrived about 30 minutes late and said he had been detained in front of St patrick’s Cathedral by two FBI agents because he registered a “high level of radiation.”

DIBS, that happened to me a few years ago, but with a different ending. I was entering on of NYC’s most secure institutions, where you have to line up outside and go thru xray machines and so on.

A guard walks by me with one of those rad detectors. He finally comes up to me and says to me, this is a radiation detector, can you tell me why it’s going off? So I tell him, just had a nuclear stress test. He never heard of it, and after I explain it, he says, you think I should get one of those? Dumbass didn’t even ask to look in my backpack.

He wasn’t unionized, he worked for one of NYC’s premiere providers of security guards. A free market kinda guy.

DIBS – this is so COOL! During the stress test, they infuse a substance called Thallium (google it) as a tracer.

This actually makes me feel somewhat safer – there is at least one place in NYC where they monitor for radioactivity (hopefully, it is also done beyond St. P’s cathedral!)

benson, I’m fairly certain the suspect already confessed to being a member of the Karachi branch of the Tea Party Movement.

By DeadCatBounce on May 4, 2010 9:26 AM

Lloyd Blankenstein = CEO GS. Non-jewish son of Mary Shelley.

DUMBASS. It’s Blankfein.

Well, looks like they caught the Times Square bombing suspect at JFK, literally pulling the guy off the plane on the runway. A Pakistani-American dual citizen.

Much of the media is disappointed that he’s not a Tea Partier. Oh well – keep trying guys.